Wwii Lighter

kokain5 · 18-11-2005, 02:59 AM

so i was looking through my late grandfathers Zippo collection and i found a lighter thats engraved:

Company 'D'
78th Engineer Battalion( C )
Karlsruhe, Germany

and has a red shield emblum with 5 crossed arrows and a banner below which says Sedulitate...basically i was just wondering if anyone had any information on this that may give me a better understanding of my grandfathers war time experience. HOWEVER, there is one thing that me and my friend thought was a little wierd and that is that its not a Zippo brand flip top lighter, its a Vulcan, which was based out of california and the casing says Japan on it as in Made In Japan...so when would this have been given? i kno my grandfather was an engineer in the war so i can only figure it was made for him then but y and how would we have had japanese parts to use?? iv found other lighters with the same design for different units, but i cant seem to track down how old exactly it is.

anyways, thx in advance for any insight.

P.S. i attatched a picture of the lighter to this post, sry its blurry

spidge · 18-11-2005, 07:06 AM

Welcome to the forum Matt,

Do you have an interest in WW2?

Kiwiwriter · 18-11-2005, 06:06 PM

Welcome aboard, Matt.

morse1001 · 18-11-2005, 06:08 PM

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(Matt @ Nov 18 2005, 12:59 AM) [post=41728]so i was looking through my late grandfathers Zippo collection and i found a lighter thats engraved:

Company 'D'
78th Engineer Battalion( C )
Karlsruhe, Germany

and has a red shield emblum with 5 crossed arrows and a banner below which says Sedulitate...basically i was just wondering if anyone had any information on this that may give me a better understanding of my grandfathers war time experience. HOWEVER, there is one thing that me and my friend thought was a little wierd and that is that its not a Zippo brand flip top lighter, its a Vulcan, which was based out of california and the casing says Japan on it as in Made In Japan...so when would this have been given? i kno my grandfather was an engineer in the war so i can only figure it was made for him then but y and how would we have had japanese parts to use?? iv found other lighters with the same design for different units, but i cant seem to track down how old exactly it is.

anyways, thx in advance for any insight.

P.S. i attatched a picture of the lighter to this post, sry its blurry
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Post war probably 1950/60s

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18-11-2005, 02:59 AM	#1 (permalink)
kokain5 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1	so i was looking through my late grandfathers Zippo collection and i found a lighter thats engraved: Company 'D' 78th Engineer Battalion( C ) Karlsruhe, Germany and has a red shield emblum with 5 crossed arrows and a banner below which says Sedulitate...basically i was just wondering if anyone had any information on this that may give me a better understanding of my grandfathers war time experience. HOWEVER, there is one thing that me and my friend thought was a little wierd and that is that its not a Zippo brand flip top lighter, its a Vulcan, which was based out of california and the casing says Japan on it as in Made In Japan...so when would this have been given? i kno my grandfather was an engineer in the war so i can only figure it was made for him then but y and how would we have had japanese parts to use?? iv found other lighters with the same design for different units, but i cant seem to track down how old exactly it is. anyways, thx in advance for any insight. P.S. i attatched a picture of the lighter to this post, sry its blurry

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